Ring, Elias bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 927, Vermont Township
Elias Ring was born in Chester Co., Penn., in 1831, where he received a liberal education and resided the greater portion of his life in Vermont tp.; in 1872 he married Mattie M., daughter of Henry Bailey, of Belmont Co., O.; in 1873 he purchased the town property he now owns, including the millinery establishment presided over by Mrs. Ring, and the wagon shops of Adams & Sexton, and he rents also the photograph gallery of Samuel Murphy. Mrs. R.’s millinery business is unequaled in Vermont.